Preparing students for high school success!
Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School / Model PTSA /
Georgia School of Excellence / AdvanceEd
Accredited /
Association for Middle Level
Education / National Association of
Secondary School Principals / Northeast Cobb
Business Association

Daniell offers three pre-academies for 8th grade students! International Spanish Language Pre-Academy; Leadership, Law, and Public Service Pre-Academy; and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Pre-Academy. Experience Daniell Virtual Learning and explore even more choices to prepare students for high school success. All students can leave Daniell at the end of 8th grade with the option of earning at least one high school credit and the possibility of earning up to six credits. Daniell Middle School is committed to preparing students for high school success! The Shark Tank is coming soon! Explore a new learning environment designed by students an educators. It's time to discover Daniell!

Daniell
Middle School Ranked Among Best Schools in
America

According to Niche's latest rankings,
Daniell Middle School is ranked in the top
10.4% (2,393 of 23,000) of best public
middle schools in America. It is also ranks
in the top 1% (215 of 24,708) most diverse
public middle schools in America. In Cobb
County, Niche ranks Daniell as the #1 most
diverse public middle school. The teachers
at Daniell have ranked in the top 13.9% of
the best public middle school teachers in
America. Click here to see the complete
ratings of Daniell Middle School from
Niche's 2018 Best Schools.

Conference Week is the week of October
16. We want to make it easier to sign-up for your meeting with
your child's advocate. This year we will be using Sign-Up Genius
to make setting up your conference date and time hassle free.
Just use the links below to access your student’s advocate’s
sign-up page. Your child should be able to provide you with the
teacher that is their advocate, but don't hesitate to call us if
we can assist in any way.

We can be reached at
678-594-8048.

For parents new to middle school, during conference week
you meet with just one of your child's teachers as opposed to
all seven of them at the same time. At Daniell, this year
families will meet with each child's adult advocate. Although
each advocate is a teacher of one of the students classes they
may not be able to answer detailed questions about certain
classes your child may be enrolled. So, as always, if you have
specific questions about your child's performance in a
particular course, please call our counseling team to set up a
time to meet just with that particular teacher.

During Conference Week your meeting with the advocate will
be
to review your child's overall performance and academic goals
for the year, give messages from a particular teacher of your
child if needed, discuss atttendance and involvment, and begin
talking to you about preparation for your child to be in high
school.

As you may have already heard, due to
the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, the Cobb County School
District will delay dismissal of elementary, middle and high
school students by 45 minutes. Middle schools will be dismissed
at 5:00 pm. With the extra time we will have with our students
on this day, our staff has prepared a lesson and viewing
opportunity for the eclipse and will also be starting our
advocacy kick-off.

During the advocacy kick-off students
will meet their personal adult advocate who will be working with
them the rest of the school year. This person will conduct the
child's parent conferences, monitor attendance, encourage school
involvement, provide couse advice in relation to high school
preparation, serve as a trusted adult, and promote increased
student achievement.

In regard to the solar eclipse, the
peak time to experience the solar eclipse falls during our
regularly scheduled elementary school dismissal time.
Since student safety is always our first priority we will start
the day on time and delay dismissal to ensure that neither
students nor employees are on the roadways during the time of
the eclipse. Subsequently, high schools and middle schools
will delay dismissal as well.

P

arents are welcome to
pick-up their child at the typical dismissal time if needed.
School will be dismissed at 5:00pm on this day.

Our Science Department has prepared a lesson
for the day of the eclipse to make the experience memorable for
our students. They have also ordered the approved eclipse safety
glasses for all students. In preparation for the event, each day
during the week of August 14 students will receive mini lessons
during homeroom. A signed permission slip must be returned in
order to participate in the activity. Please ensure your child
returns their form to participate in the outdoor fieldtrip.
Should rain or overcast occur, students will watch the eclipse
via live broadcast from NASA.

For more information regarding the
solar eclipse visit the National Weather Service at

Are
you ready to "Discover Daniell"? We hope you
are as excited as we are about the 2017-2018
school year. Although this is Principal
Nelson's eleventh year at Daniell, this year
is as if it his first year as a new
principal at Daniell as he and the
administrative team are launching a new
instructional leadership operating system
(ilOS).

He operated the school under ilOS
1.0 from 2007-2012 and ilOS 2.0 from
2012-2017. ilOS 1.0 was designed to shift
the school culture. ilOS 2.0 was aimed at
gathering resources for the school. During
operating systems 1.0 and 2.0, the school
experienced many positive successes which
has now lead the faculty and staff to launch
ilOS 3.0 which outlines a new vision and a
defined plan to make Daniell Middle School
an even more vibrant and dynamic learning
environment with the specific intent of
preparing middle level students for high
school success. This new system is built
just for middle level learners and is based
on proven instructional strategies and a
guaranteed and viable curriculum.

Combining
this new vision with the platform achieved
under the previous instuctional leadership
models, we are confident our students will
only be more successful for their high
school preparation. We look forward to
working together with all our community
members to continue to make Daniell Middle
School a place we are all proud for our
children to attend.

Overview of a School Day

Don't forget, middle schools in CCSD begin at
9:15 am. To help you plan for your adjustment to middle school, below is an overview of what a typical day looks like.

Students arriving after 8:00 am should report to
the theater for study hall. Students should not arrive prior to 8:00 am.
At 8:50 am students will be released to their homeroom
teacher. Students arriving after 8:50 am should report to
their homeroom teacher. At 9:11 am students will be released to their
lockers to get their books for 1st period. At 9:15 am the tardy bell will ring, and classes will
begin. Parents arriving after the tardy bell has rung
will need to sign their student in tardy in the Welcome
Lobby. Students will attend seven
classes which are approximately 50 minutes in length.

Students will have scheduled locker access.
Students should not share lockers or give out their
locker combinations to others. Students who have
PE/Health will also have a locker in the gym area.
Students should not share this combination either.

At 4:10 pm afternoon announcements will be given to
students. Dismissal will be at 4:15 pm.Supply
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